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Old 10th Dec 2019, 05:46
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Quemerford
 
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Way back a few years (1998-ish) the famous scrapyard at Hanningfield had a load of leftover stuff from the latest Star Wars film (Phantom Menace I think). I recall seeing B-52 crew seats and a trashed F-86L canopy. Not sure what they used in the film but the guy I spoke to at Hanningfield told me that the production people had gone over to Arizona and loaded a container full of aircraft scrap from the yards surrounding Davis Monthan and brought it to the UK. The stuff they didn't use went as scrap when they'd finished. The Manston museum did at least manage to rescue a decent F-86L canopy but I have no idea if anything else survived.
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